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It's Election Day! Brady is on the ground in Washington to get out the vote for I-594 to expand background checks on all gun sales. It’s time to make the Evergreen State the seventh in the nation to pass background checks on all gun sales and keep its citizens safer.

Brady advocates are out in full force in Washington to support I-594, the initiative to expand background checks on all gun sales. We’re knocking on doors, dialing phones, and speaking to Washingtonians about how this initiative will save lives and reduce gun violence.

"The Truth About Kids & Guns" report catalogues the deadly impact of a parent's unlocked gun, providing data from leading credible sources, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to show where, how and why these deaths and injuries occur.

Here is a statistic that surprises many people. Most gun deaths in the country, 19,990 - more than 60%, are suicides. If we want to reduce deaths caused by guns, we need to put as much focus on the preventing gun suicides as we do on gun homicides.

Just a few "bad apple gun dealers" supply most of the guns used in crime in America. We're taking a stand against them with a new campaign. Through protests and lawsuits, we will hold them accountable, stop the flow of guns to criminals, and make this a safer nation.

Brady participated in the NCLS Summit in Minneapolis. Read Brian Malte’s recap highlighting the energy and optimism state lawmakers showed for addressing gun violence in their states, especially around expanding background checks to all online and gun show sales.

I remember sitting on my grandmother’s lap as a child – one of her hands on my back, the other holding a cigarette. It’s surprising sometimes to think about the large shifts we’ve made in health-related behaviors in just one generation.

The next time you hear the corporate gun lobby try to obstruct the enactment of new common sense gun laws by claiming, “We just need to enforce the laws on the books,” remind them of what they did in Kansas.

Whether it's the rampage in Las Vegas that left two police officers dead or the recent gun violence in Chicago that resulted in the death of a 11-year-old girl, killed while attending a friends sleepover -these all leave us wondering: when will it end?